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Also: Manga to go on hiatus until summer, with series being published irregularly The first 2016 issue of Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine (cover shown right) is announcing on Friday that a new anime adaptation project of Kentarou Miura's Berser...

Following the countdown timer for the Naruto Next Generation, the website has revealed that a new manga in Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto franchise is being produced for Spring 2016. The manga itself will follow Boruto and the next generation of shinobi.

Gainax and Konami have just recently opened a brand new website announcing a brand new Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann project is currently in the works. The project's title is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Restart.

The recent announcement of the Boruto one-shot and monthly manga series aren't the only big Naruto happenings. This past weekend's Jump Festa event also featured the announcement of a TV anime adaptation of the Naruto: Itachi Shinden spin-off ligh...

The official Twitter account of ufotable's Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works anime has announced that a new anime project in the Fate series is being worked on for 2016. The project itself was announced on the Red Stage at the AnimeJapan 2016...

Here's a trailer for the original anime project Qualidea Code, which was announced at Jump Festa 2016. A new creative union Speakeasy, which consists of Sou Sagara (Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko), Koushi Tachibana (Date A Live), and Wataru Watari ...

The official website for the highly anticipated second season of Yusei Matsui's Shonen Jump hit Assassination Classroom (Ansatsu Kyoushitsu) TV anime began streaming a promotional video on Monday. The video introduces the main cast members and pre...

At the recent Jump Festa 2016 event, it was announced that a new TV anime adaptation of Katsura Hoshino's D. Gray-man manga is being produced for 2016. The anime's official website has launched and revealed the first visual, cast, staff and promot...

It looks like the Naruto franchise will not be the first of the big 3 to retire after all. A monthly spinoff manga starring Naruto's son Boruto was recently revealed by Shueisha and now Itachi Shinden (The True Legend of Itachi), a spinoff novel w...

Holotech Studios' FaceRig avatar software can transform you, your friends, your dad, and your coworkers into anime high school girls. The program uses Skype and works similarly to the software that made SnapChat's filters popular, but more intrica...

Launched with an update to the series' site timed for Jump Festa, a new visual for the second season of Haikyu! ! has gone online. In other Haikyu! ! doings, tacica, who did first series ending, "Leo," is back with new ending "Hatsunetsu.

Square Enix showcased the latest for Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 with a look at its new animated trailer, featuring a variety of monsters in the mix, from Jump Festa 2016. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 is scheduled for release in Japan on March ...

The official website for the anime adaptation of Yu Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana's popular sci-fi action Terra Formars manga series began streaming the first promotional video for the upcoming second season of Terraformars, titled Terraformars Rev...

The first Digimon Adventure tri. chapter sold 139,408 tickets for 218 million yen (about $1. 80 million USD) as of Wednesday, December 16. The film has been about a month since the movie opened in 10 theaters on November 20.

Without a doubt, one of the hottest anime right now is One Punch Man, and it's getting two new OVAs, which will be coming bundled with the anime's Volume 1 and Volume 2 Blu-Ray/ DVD releases. The first OVA will be "titled A Shadow That Snuck Up To...

We will soon finally get to see the end of Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, as its fifth and final chapter, "Itoshiki Monotachi e" (To Beloved) when it makes its premiere on 6 February. The upcoming anime film's official website has now updated and h...

This New Year's Eve Japanese television station NHK will be airing its annual year-end music special Kohaku Uta Gassen from 7:15PM until 11:45pm that night. Late last month we reported on the list of acts which would be attending the event this ye...

A man punches. Once. The animation is amazing. It looks absolutely stunning. I enjoyed it on that basis alone. I was worried that it would be repetitive, since the premise is that the main character can take anybody out with just one punch.

'試合開始！！' (Shiai Kaishi) The Miyagi Preliminaries are now underway, and it's all volleyball from here on out! As we found out last week, Karasuno have to win their first two games of the day in order to move on in the October matches.

I may not be too far in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky but its prologue chapter has already made me a fan of the game already. Since Estelle and Joshua's great chemistry pulled me in, I guess you could say that it was love at first sight.

Over the past weekend anime, gaming and manga fans have been attending Jump Fiesta in Tokyo. One of the new trailers released over the weekend was for the upcoming games Kingdom Hearts HD 2. 8 Final Chapter Prologue and the long-awaited Kingdom He...

'グラヴィシーズ' (Gurabuishiisu) "Gravisheath" With its first cour wrapping up, let's jump into some final impressions with a little bit of talk about the Urzaiz sisters. Because let's be honest here - who wouldn't want more of them?

The second promotional video has been revealed at the recent 2016 Jump Festa event for the anime adaptation of Kouhei Horikoshi's Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academia) manga. This new PV introduces the main characters of the new anime and previ...

After its presentation at this weekend's Jump Festa event, Warner Bros. has posted the first preview for the anime adaptation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable. Broadcast of the latest adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's manga...

One of the most highly anticipated TV anime for Winter 2016 is Ajin - Demi-Human, which is based on Gamon Sakurai's bestselling horror manga. A new PV for the series has finally been streamed by King Records, and it gives us a taste to what to exp...

Since before twilight there has been a steady increase of Young Adult Novel productions circulating in western book stores - Japan has been way ahead of us in that respect. What are light novels and what is the difference between those and normal ...

Dec20 Subete ga F ni Naru: Perfect Insider - 11 [END] My reaction exactly As explained by the above picture of Nishinosono's face, episode 10 and 11 really were not my cup of tea. So much like what I did for Gatchaman Crowds Insight when I started...

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